Modern human anatomy has built on the strengths and the weaknesses of a body plan inherited from distant ancestors, giving us an efficient and graceful gait and a range of painful problems from ...

By digitally modeling muscles and tendons for the skeleton of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), researchers determined that our hominin ancestors could run well but topped out around 11 mph.

Evaluating human gait and posture is a clinically effective method for the early diagnosis of diseases involving gait afflictions, such as adult spinal deformity (ASD). Researchers at University ...